6Str1ngKng Wrote:yeah, because everyone has a 6.60GHz processors, lolzNo, but you can buy a dual-core 3Ghz and quad-core 2Ghz processors
...and modern processors also have larger and faster level-2 cache but more importantly they also feature highly optimized Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) which are really good performance enhancements for video decoding, that only get better with each generation.
CPU clock cycles are not eveything and both CPU manufactures and video decoder programmers/developers realize this. Read this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
Quote:The megahertz myth, or less commonly the gigahertz myth, refers to the error of using clock rate to compare the performance of different microprocessors. While clock rates are a valid way of comparing the performance of different speeds of the same model and type of processor, other factors such as pipelines and instruction sets can greatly affect the performance when considering different processors. For example, one processor may take one clock cycle to add two numbers and another clock cycle to multiply by a third number, whereas another processor may do the same calculation in one clock cycle. Comparisons between different types of processors are difficult because performance varies depending on the type of task....
